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Interstates are by far the most traveled roads in Northeast Pennsylvania. Because of that, we analyzed their deadly crashes separately.

About 11.3%, or 136, of the 1,200 fatal crashes from 2007 and 2017, occurred on Interstates 80, 81, 84, 380 and stretches of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that run through Lackawanna, Luzerne and Monroe counties. The crashes killed 162 people.

Other interstate findings:

 There were 39 crashes and 43 deaths on I-80; 54 crashes and 68 deaths on I-81; 18 crashes and 19 deaths on I-84; 21 crashes and 27 deaths on I-380; and four crashes and five deaths on the local stretch of the Turnpike.

 The number of fatal crashes on the interstates remained fairly steady year over year. There were five years — 2010 through 2015 — where the number of fatal crashes ranged between 10 and 14 a year. The crashes spiked in 2011 at 19 and hit its lowest point at seven in 2009. In 2017, there were eight fatal crashes, down slightly from nine crashes in 2007.

 The biggest single cluster of deadly interstate crashes occurred on I-80 as it winds through Pocono Twp. in Monroe County. There were nine crashes and 12 deaths in six miles.

 I-81 was not far behind. A roughly six-mile stretch between Avoca and Scranton had nine crashes and 10 fatalities between 2007 and 2017. This was closely followed a stretch of interstate between Dunmore and South Abington Twp. that logged eight crashes and 12 deaths, including a Jan. 23, 2016 two-car crash that left five people dead. The driver responsible for that crash, Gennadiy Manannikov, now 31, is serving a 18- to 36-year prison sentence.

 Aggressive driving, primarily excessive speed, is the cause for 63%, or 86, fatal interstate crashes. Alcohol is a cause in 21.3%, or 29, crashes. Both were a listed cause in the same crash 19 times.

 About 44.4%, or 72 people, died not wearing a seatbelt.

 The most common fatal interstate collision involved a vehicle hitting an object — almost always a tree, embankment or guardrail. This happened 50.7%, or 69 times. The second most common involved two vehicles in a rear-end collision. This happened 14.7%, or 20 times.

 Tractor-trailers were involved in 34.6%, or 47, of the fatal crashes.. Aggressive driving was at the root of 30 — or 63.8% — of those crashes.

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